Category Archives: Kvinnorörelsen

En västinfluerad kvinna kan inte våldtas?

By indiensolidaritet | Published February 20, 2014

Debatten kring den sexattacksanklagade f.d. redaktören Tarun Tejpal fortsätter. Idag skriver Krishnan från All India Progressive Womens Association om fallet i tidningen Outlook (som publicerade “Walking with the comrades”). Det visar sig att Tejpals advokat har försvarat sin klient med argumentet att en “frigjord” “västinfluerad kvinna” inte kan våldtas till skillnad från den “kastpräglade kvinnan”.

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Debatt om feminism i Indien

By indiensolidaritet | Published January 27, 2014

Dear Friends Greetings! Please click on the link given below to watch a debate on feminism in India. It has a very impressive panel of people on this programme which includes: Gloria Steinem, Amartaya Sen, Ruchira Gupta, Urvashi Butalia and Nandita Das. The issues related to gender, caste and class does come in for debate. […]

Bra studie om kvinnor i Indien

By indiensolidaritet | Published October 22, 2013

Det här är en bra studie om kvinnor i Indien. http://www.countercurrents.org/stephen151013.htm I Indien är kvinnor sämre lottade än på Ceylon och i Bangladesh. Och detta har djupa rötter i ALLA heliga böcker och skrifter och kulter. Även i städer och i högre kaster är det svårt för kvinnor att få upprättelse inför domstolar. Fruktansvärt! Man kan alltså säga att […]

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Anuradha Ghandys “kommunistiska feminism”

By indiensolidaritet | Published October 4, 2013

Scripting Changes, Changing Scripts by DR. ROSHAN SHAHANI — reposted from CHAPATI MYSTERY The occasional series on South Asian political life and public culture continues with Roshan Shahani’s review of Scripting the Change: Selected Writings of Anuradha Ghandy (eds. Anand Teltumde and Shoma Sen, Daanish Books 2012). Dr. Roshan Shahani retired as reader and head of […]

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Seminarium om indiska gruppvåldtäkter i Lund

By indiensolidaritet | Published September 5, 2013

• SASNET/UPF seminar on Gang Rapes in India A joint SASNET/UPF (Association of Foreign Affairs at Lund University) seminar on ”Gang Rapes in India” will be held in Lund on Wednesday 11 September 2013, 19.00–21.00. Malin Mendel Westberg, Swedish public service television (SVT) correspondent in India will share her experiences from reporting on the violent […]

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Amnesty stödjer kampanjen för Soni Sori

By indiensolidaritet | Published August 13, 2013

Amnesty har tagit upp den torterade adivasiläraren Soni Soris fall (se brevet längst ner). Soni Sori anklagades för att ha samröre med naxaliterna och hon torterades brutalt bl.a. genom att stenar fördes upp i hennes slida. Polismannens som var ansvarig för tortyren fick medalj. En omfattande kampanj har drivits för att hon skall släppas. Noam […]

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Women flock to Naxal cause

By indiensolidaritet | Published July 25, 2013

The nation’s elected representatives haven’t been able to agree on the Women’s Reservation Bill. The police find it very hard to increase the representation of women in their ranks. The Naxalites have no such problem, however, as the Union home ministry has found out. According to a recent Ministry of Home Affairs estimate, women constitute […]

Revolutionära kvinnor är mer “brutala och våldsamma” enligt polisen

By indiensolidaritet | Published July 21, 2013

Women Cadres Shedding Traditional Roles in LWE Areas TIKESHWAR PATEL | RAIPUR | JUN 30, 2013 The women cadres are also being given equal chance in decision making at special zonal committee rung of outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist). “Women cadres are actively participating in military operations in large number as compared to their […]

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Let us unitedly fight back the forthcoming fascist attack on women of Dandakaranya and on the mass organizations!

By indiensolidaritet | Published June 28, 2013

Let us unitedly fight back the forthcoming fascist attack on women of Dandakaranya and on the mass organizations! An appeal by KAMS to fraternal mass organizations, progressive democratic women, intellectuals, students and all democrats Dear friends, Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan [Revolutionary Adivasi Women’s Organization] is working in the Dandakaranya comprising seven districts of Maharashtra and […]

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Naxaliternas kvinnoorganisation KAMS, den största i Indien?